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Woke up expecting to work but I ended up not having to. I seized the opportunity to get out on the big lake, my home lake, for the first time with the new boat. There was zero wind so the entire lake was glass. My buddy came with and we caught a few of everything but smallmouth. I sat and bed fished a true giant of a smallie and even hooked up with it by pestering it with a weightless fluke on its bed. I really fucked up and fought the fish terribly and on its seconds jump it threw the hook. We saw probably 20 or so other giant ass bass. Looked like smallmouth but I'm not positive. We also saw a big school of absolutly massive carp. So big that if I managed to hook one with my fly rod I wouldn't have stood a chance it would have broke my rod with ease. They must have been 30-40 pounds easy. After we saw that we went into a bay and fished for some big bluegills but ended up catching a slew of perch and short but chunky large mouth. I ended the day by throwing a frog on this little isolated cluster of Lilly pads and had a few blowups that I thought for sure were bass. I put on a popper and sure enough one blew up and I got hooked up. Ended up being a fucking pickerel of all things. First time ever catching a pickerel on top water. My buddy brought his nice camera so I don't have an pics besides this one from when we got done. Such a nice day on the water even though we didn't get any big ones
